New .nops directive, to aid Linux alternatives patching?

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Andrew Cooper
<andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I realise this is a little bit niche, but how feasible would it be to
> introduce a new .nops directive which takes a size parameter, and
> outputs long nops covering the number of specified bytes?
>

Sounds to me you want a pseudo NOP instruction:

pseudo-NOP N

which generates a long NOP with N byte.  Is that correct.  If yes,
what is the range of N?

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H.J.